5. In 2013 Black Friday the number of discussions on social media were tracked at 996,306. This year it was up to 2,013,943 , more than doubling social interest. Social Media Buzz

6. The split of women talking about sales on Facebook was larger than men. When it came to Black Friday women did 60 % of the talking, but Cyber Monday had an even larger difference, coming in with a 72/28 split. Social Media Buzz

7. With more than 300,000 mentions, PlayStation 4 drove close to three times more social media traffic on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, blogs, YouTube, and Reddit than did Microsoft’s Xbox One. Social Media Buzz

8. In the past seven years, Black Friday in the US has caused four deaths and 76 injuries. Fortunately, due to Cyber Monday’s rise in popularity, the number of Black Friday fatalities should decrease in the coming years. We hope. Retail Madness

9. Walmart announced that sales had exceeded last year’s record with 10 million transactions completed between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Thanksgiving day. Retail Madness

11. iOS users drove four times as much mobile sales revenue as Android users, 79% and 21% respectively. iOS traffic accounted for 35.4% of total online traffic, more than double that of Android at 15.4%. Mobile Spending

12. Approximately 5.1 million Canadians crossed the US border to take advantage of Black Friday shopping deals. Black Friday around the World

13. £800 million was spent by British shoppers on Black Friday. That’ s 1.269 billion USD. Impressive, given that Thanksgiving isn’t even a thing in the UK... Black Friday around the World

14. Wal-Mart subsidiary Asda sold more than 8,000 televisions in the first hour after its shops opened at 8am in the UK. It had sold more than 1,000 BMX bikes and had sold out entirely of Microsoft XBox 360 games consoles by 9am. Black Friday around the World

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@Stéphanie Delaporte Great question. We're huge fans of Giving Tuesday as well! As yet the stats we're seeing are these: Looks like $45.68 million raised (an increase of 63%). 15,000 nonprofits got involved from 68 countries around the world. Also there were 698,600 mentions of the #GivingTuesday hashtag. Pretty incredible for an organization only two years old! Source: http://casefoundation.org/blog/givingtuesday-moves-campaign-tradition. Thanks for watching and commenting!